Chapter 6-In the Forest Part 2
Twilight awoke groggy from her sleep. She felt the hard floor under her and wondered if she had fallen off her bed she opened her eyes and saw that she was in the main room of the library. She suddenly remembered all that happened
"What time is it Spike?" she asked the little dragon who had just entered the main room
"Oh! Twilight, it is 9 in the morning. Why?" said the dragon slightly surprised to see Twilight awake
"Good that means I only lost three hours"
"Um, Twilight you were asleep since last morning, what did you do to make yourself so tired anyways?"
"What!? I was sleeping for 27 hours! Why didn't you wake me up Spike?"
"Um ..."
"Twilight dear, would you like to stop yelling? Somepony is trying to get her beauty sleep" said a voice beside Twilight
"Rarity we've been sleeping for over a day; we need to leave soon if we are going to catch up with Rainbow"
"What in tarnation are y'all talking about? Rainbow said we weren't teh follow 'er"
"I agree Twilight, AJ is right" Rarity agreed
"Fine. I wonder where Fluttershy and Pinkie are"
"Well Fluttershy is sleeping there. Isn't she such a dear" Rarity said pointing towards the yellow pegasus who was curled into a ball next to a bookshelf breathing softly. Twilight felt embarrassed that she had failed to notice her quiet friend laying there, scolding herself for being so oblivious. " And Pinkie ... isn't here. She is probably somewhere around town"
"Probably woke up earlier and got bored of sitting around"
"Um, girls?"
"Yes Spike"
"When I woke up yesterday, there was only you four sleeping. Pinkie Pie was nowhere to be found"
"Where could Pinkie be?"
"I don't know"
"Twilight, why is that book flashing?
Twilight turned her head to look at a book with her cutie mark on it which was indeed flashing.
"The inter-book! Maybe Rainbow has sent us a message!"
The three awake ponies rushed to look over Twilight's shoulder. They were all surprised when there was a message, not from Rainbow but from Pinkie.
All three gasped when they saw the message. "Well we know where Pinkie is now"
The book said. Gone to follow Rainbow Dash. Will hold a party when back
Pinkie Pie had been bouncing her way through the dreaded Everfree forest for more than a day now, stopping only to eat when hungry. She was passing through a relatively clear area when she smelled something. Campsite!
Pinkie entered a moderately sized clearing and spotted two ponies cleaning up a campsite.
"Hello Daring Do" Pinkie said cheerfully "Hello Daring Do's helper pony who I know the name of"
"The name is Quest Finder"
"Oh, hello Quest Finder. I lo-ove meeting new ponies. My name is Pinkie Pie but you can just call me Pinkie. Oh, hey that reminds me; I am looking for a friend, her name is Rainbow Dash and she is rainbowy and cool and ultra awesome"
"Um, yeah we met her" Quest said with a scowl
"Really?! Where did she go? Did she say? Oh, wait I know where she is going. Silly me"
"She left several hours ago and never told us exactly where she was going"
"Okie-Dokie-Loki. Bye Daring Do, bye Quest Finder" said the pink pony bouncing her way onwards
When the Pinkie was gone Quest Finder was the first to speak "What the buck just happened?"
"I don't know"
Spitfire knocked on the door of the house.
"Oh, hello Spitfire what can I do for you?"
"May I come in?"
"You're always welcome here." said Firewing "Come take a seat."
"When they were both seated comfortably Firewing asked "What brings you here today, sis" Spitfire had only come to his house about half a dozen times since she had joined the Wonderbolts and only when she had something important to bring her to him. Himself and his sister had always been very much polar opposites, he was calm and responsible while his sister was excitable and adventurous, and had drifted apart.
"It's about the filly Rainbow Dash" Firewing raised his eyebrows, he was surprised that his sister had remembered her name. "You were seen talking to her two days ago and now we can't find her. What did you tell her to do?"
Firewing couldn't keep himself from laughing, the absurdity was palatable "Are you accusing me of giving young Rainbow bad ideas?"
Spitfire narrowed her eyes "You won't think it so funny when I tell you she was last seen flying into the Everfree Forest"
Firewing abruptly stopped laughing. Why would she go looking for her parents in the Everfree Forest? "Why do you suddenly care so much about her?"
"Because we need her! There are more aerial stunt teams popping up now than ever before; now most of them don't have a chance but Princess Luna has recommissioned the Shadowbolts as her official stunt team and she is planning for them to be Equestria's official flight team!" Firewing had always found his sister to be slightly melodramatic at times but this was more than he expected
"Why do you need her?" Firewing had never been to keen on seeing Rainbow Dash as one of the Wonderbolts. Not because he thought it dangerous, or rather not only because he thought it dangerous, but because Rainbow Dash was very sensitive to the public opinion, and all fame comes with it's own dose of infame. He had seen about a dozen articles that held very low opinions of his sister; now Spitfire was unfazed by the slander due to her unnaturally bloated ego, but one bad article might be all it takes to send Rainbow into a downward spiral.
"I, we, need her because she is the only pegasus to ever do the sonic rainboom. And we need to recruit her before one of the other teams does" Spitfire had always been frustrating to reason with. She had no patience for anypony but she expected everypony to wait indefinitely for her; the worst part was that due to her fame Spitfire had never been forced to confront her hypocrisy due to the common logic that, she is famous therefor she is special.
"Oh, so you need her because she is the best flier ever to come out of Cloudsdale" He was now deliberately antagonizing his sister.
"No, she is not the best. She might possibly be the second best, but not the best"
"You might be right, Wonder Bolt may, may, have been better" Wonder Bolt was famed as the father of stunt flying and the founder of the Wonderbolts. He invented several dozen tricks and built a team of the best fliers in Equestria and toured the country putting on shows for the ponyfolk. Wonder Bolt had, not surprisingly, died in a tragic high speed crash that shook the foundations of the whole of Equestria. After his death the team's name was shortened from Wonder Bolt's Amazing Aeronautical Wonder Team to simply The Wonderbolts
Spitfire was now visibly aggravated and was grinding her teeth "Why do you have to be so difficult?"
"You are calling me difficult? You are the most difficult pony alive. I wish that young Rainbow had chosen an idol that wasn't near as belligerent or narcissistic as you are Spitfire."
"What does she mean to you? You keep her down in a shoddy position in a small poor fringe town and get angry when I want to take her to the top"
" First she means everything to me; I raised her! Second I have not been holding her in her current position; I have given her several opportunities of advancement but she wants to stay in Ponyville because she doesn't want to leave her friends. And three if you had got past your pride and recruited her earlier you wouldn't be in this position, but you decided that you would let her wait until you absolutely needed her because you took her for granted and assumed that she would always be there in case you needed her"
"You raised her? Why didn't you tell me?!"
"I once told you that I had adopted a young filly named Rainbow Dash but never found it in you to even give a buck"
"I don't even know why I came here in the first place. I knew you wouldn't understand" Spitfire got up and left Firewing's house slamming the door behind her.
"Well that went about as well as it usually did"
Rainbow Dash had woken up early in the morning and had quickly said her goodbyes to the two adventurer ponies and took off to the south. According to the map that Twilight had made she was getting very close to this Mount Olympus
Rainbow noticed that the forest was thinning out into a meadow. Then Rainbow saw a silhouette in the distance of a very tall mountain of sorts. She decided that she would camp here, out of sight of the mountain and whatever dwells in it, and check out the mountain when she was rested and fresh
When she had set up her camp she took one look at the silhouetted mountain before going to sleep